MAKE will be at OSCON for the rest of the week. OSCON is the annual open source convention, looks like over 2,000 people are here. MAKE will be presenting at the O’Reilly booth throughout the week (Linux devices, PSP hacking…) and doing a presentation on Friday (DIY culture stuff). Here are some quick photos I took before anyone got here. Link. Oh, if there are any sessions or MAKER-like people you want me to interview post up in the comments.
MAKE pals -from the shadows- have a new episode out. “Box 5.0: Beer! Science. Art. Technology”. This episode kicks it off with the science of beer at the Anchor Brewing Company, then moves on to “Home Brewing 101”, and tops it off with an exclusive look at the KegBot! Link.
Is there anything the TI’s can’t do?…it’s not one of those slow and unplayable basic games. This is a real-time 3d-raycaster based on the game by id. Also includes an on-calc mapeditor. Link.
I really like this idea…I hate wrapping gifts. It’s the most unoriginal part of gift-giving. Although my gifts are hardly ever spectacular, my wrapping will always outshine them. I recommend using this wrapping method for giving out crowbars at Christmas. The extra irony makes the project that much sweeter. It’s really not your problem how to open the crate once the gift has been given, so don’t let anyone sucker you into opening it for them. Link.
I really like Firefox, mostly because you can make your own browser with all the GreaseMonkey stuff…and now check this- The Mozilla Foundation, developer of the Firefox Web browser, plans to announce Wednesday that it has created a for-profit subsidiary to pursue wider potential for the software. NYTimes story but, read Joi Ito’s post about this, it clears some things up. Link. I’m off to OSCON, I’ll find out more about this soon…
Awesome. WiGLE is an online database of Wireless Access Points (802.11A/B/G) that is contributed to by folks using Netstumbler, Kismet and other war driving tools. WiGLE has a web interface of its own as well as Java desktop client called JiGLE. Link.
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MAKE pal Russell Beattie has an extremely detailed hands-on review of the new Apple Mighty Mouse with loads of pictures and screenshots. There’s no other moving parts besides the main clicker. I’m not sure what sort of magic Apple put into this thing, but it detects left, right and middle clicking accurately, even though there’s no other buttons. It’s pretty wild. What’s amusing is that I used a one-button mouse for a while when I first got my Mini, and I kept “right-clicking” using that mouse and obviously nothing happened… Link.
